How to format your references using the Food Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Food Policy. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Ma, E., 2004. Materials science. Watching the nanograins roll. Science 305, 623–624.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gottesman, S., Maurizi, M.R., 2001. Cell biology. Surviving starvation. Science 293, 614–615.

A journal article with 3 authors

Foulquier, S., Steckelings, U.M., Unger, T., 2013. Perspective: A tale of two receptors. Nature 493, S9.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Raman, S., Lange, O.F., Rossi, P., Tyka, M., Wang, X., Aramini, J., Liu, G., Ramelot, T.A., Eletsky, A., Szyperski, T., Kennedy, M.A., Prestegard, J., Montelione, G.T., Baker, D., 2010. NMR structure determination for larger proteins using backbone-only data. Science 327, 1014–1018.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Vakkur, N.V., Herrera, Z.J., 2013. Corporate Governance Regulation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Pobil, A.P. del, Chinellato, E., Martinez-Martin, E., Hallam, J., Cervera, E., Morales, A. (Eds.), 2014. From Animals to Animats 13: 13th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2014, Castellón, Spain, July 22-25, 2014. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Cohen, A., Porath, M., Clarke, A., Bai, H., Leggo, C., Meyer, K., 2012. Becoming a Daoist Educator: The Pedagogy of Wu-Wei, in: Cohen, A., Porath, M., Clarke, A., Bai, H., Leggo, C., Meyer, K. (Eds.), Speaking of Teaching…: Inclinations, Inspirations, and Innerworkings. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 19–33.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Food Policy.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2015. Watch The First Ever Video Of The World’s Most Elusive Whale [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office, 1998. FCC: Reconsideration of the Rules and Policies for the 220-222 MHz Radio Service (No. OGC-98-57). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Rutherford, J., 2010. What is old is new again: The role of discontinuity in nostalgia-related consumption (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

LISA W. FODERARO; Reporting for this article was contributed by Ford Fessenden, as well as by Kathleen McGrory in Westchester, Akhtar, F., Sophia Chang on, Koblin, J., Nate Schweber in, Lazo, A., Connecticut, A.S. in, 2006. That Sound You Hear? The Market Coming Down to Earth. New York Times 14NJ6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Ma, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Gottesman and Maurizi, 2001; Ma, 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Gottesman and Maurizi, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Raman et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food Policy
Abbreviation	Food Policy
ISSN (print)	0306-9192
Scope	Food Science Economics and Econometrics Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Development Sociology and Political Science